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The former sort come out of the Alps : these last are sent 

 from other Parts beyond the Sea. 



CHAPTER LIV. 

 Of Monkeys. 



ALL the Kinds of Monkeys 1 approach very near to the 

 human Figure ; but they differ one from another in the Tail. 

 They possess wonderful Shrewdness ; and are said to do as 

 they see Hunters do before them : even to besmear them- 

 selves with Birdlime, and to entangle their Feet in Snares, 

 as if they were putting on Shoes. Mutianus saith, that they 

 have played at Chess; and that at first Sight they knew Nuts 

 made of Wax from others ; that when the Moon is in the 

 wane those Kinds which have Tails are sad, but the new 

 Moon they adore with Skipping for Joy : for the Eclipse of 

 Sun or Moon these and all other four-footed Creatures 

 greatly dread. Monkeys of all Sorts are very fond of their 

 Young Ones ; and those which are kept tame in Houses will 

 display them to every one as soon as they are born, carrying 

 them about : they also take Pleasure to have them dandled, as 

 if they understood it to imply Congratulation, and in this Way 

 they generally end in killing them by their Embraces. The 

 Nature of the Cynocephali 2 is the most savage ; as that of the 

 Sphinges and Satyri is the most gentle. The Callitriches 3 

 differ almost entirely in their Appearance : they have a 

 Beard on their Face, and the Forepart of their Tail is widely 



1 Lib. xi. 44. 



2 Cynocepnalus anubis. F. Cuv. This is the baboon, which, according 

 to the author of the work on Monkeys, in the " Library of Entertaining 

 Knowledge," was, " without a shadow of doubt," the Cynocephalus of the 

 ancients ; but other authorities attribute the Cynocephalus to the Derrias 

 or CynocepTialus hamadryis of modern zoologists. Wern. Club. 



3 Colobus guereza. RUP. The Guereza. " The conjecture as to 

 the identity of the Guereza with the Callithrix of the ancients, is by no 

 means void of probability : at all events it appears to be much nearer the 

 truth than any other we have met with on the subject." See Natural 

 History of Monkeys in "Library of Entertaining Knowledge" p. 278. 

 Wern. Club. 



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